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The Club of Rome (where the buck stops)

So, what exactly is the Club of Rome and who are its members? Founded in 1968 at David Rockefeller’s estate in Bellagio, Italy, the CoR describes itself as “a group of world citizens, sharing a common concern for the future of humanity.” It consists of current and former Heads of State, UN beaureacrats, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe.

Many people have heard of the Tri-Lateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. What do they have in common with the CoR? They were all founded by Rockefeller. The head hancho’s at each organization sit on the Board of the CoR. The T-LC and the CFR are really just the Public Relations unit of the CoR, for the CoR is where the buck stops.

I have been tirelessly talking about Agenda 21, so I hope that people are aware of this little nugget of legislation by now. It was the outcome of the Club of Rome, a think-tank that provides ‘suggestions’ to the United Nations. We are currently seeing all these ‘suggestions’ coming to fruition as current legislation bombards us daily as America is being radically transformed. This transformation is no accident, and it is not aimless nor mindless. It has been carefully construed and orchestrated. It is the work of the Club of Rome.

Their mission can be most readily surmised just by looking at the graphic they designed for their ‘mission statement’ home page….

…and for those with more time on your hands than you care to have, you can expand the synposis and follow the links provided and delve right into their rhetoric:

1.Environment and Resources: This cluster relates climate change, peak oil, ecosystems and water. Radical and rapid social and economic transformations will be needed to avert runaway climate change and ecological breakdown;

2. Globalisation: This cluster relates interdependence, distribution of wealth and income, demographic change, employment, trade and finance. Rising inequalities and imbalances associated with the present path of globalisation risk the breakdown of the world economic and financial systems;

3. World Development: This cluster relates sustainable development, demographic growth, poverty, environmental stress, food production, health and employment. The scandal of abiding poverty, deprivation, inequity and exclusion in a wealthy world must be corrected;

4. Social Transformation: This cluster relates social change, gender equity, values and ethics, religion and spirituality, culture, identity and behaviour. The values and behaviour on which the present path of world development is based must change if peace and progress are to be preserved within the tightening human and environmental limits;

5. Peace and Security: This cluster relates justice, democracy, governance, solidarity, security and peace. The present path of world development risks alienation, polarization, violence and conflict; the preservation of peace is vital in itself but is also a precondition for progress and for the resolution of the issues which threaten the future.

The Club of Rome subsequently foundedtwo sibling organizations, the Club of Budapestand the Club of Madrid. The former is focused on social and cultural aspects of their agenda, while the latter concentrates on the political aspects. All three of these ‘Clubs’ share many common members and hold joint meetingsand conferences. As explained in other articles on this website it is abundantly clear that these are three heads of the same beast. The CoR has also established a network of 33 National Associations.Membership of the ‘main Club’ is limited to 100 individuals at any one time. Some members, like Al Gore and Maurice Strong, are affiliated through their respective National Associations (e.g. USACOR, CACOR etc).

I would like to start this analysis of the Club of Rome by listing some prominent members of the CoR and its two sub-groups, the Clubs of Budapest and Madrid. Personally it isn’t what the CoR is that I find so astonishing; it is WHO the CoR is! This isn’t some quirky little group of green activists or obscure politicians. They are the most senior officials in the United Nations, current and ex-world leaders, and the founders of some of the most influential environmental organisations. When you read their reports in the context of who they are – its gives an entirely new, and frightening, context to their extreme claims.

Some current members of the Club of Rome or its two siblings:

Al Gore – former VP of the USA, leading climate change campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner, Emmy winner. Gore lead the US delegations to the Rio Earth Summit and Kyoto Climate Change conference. He chaired a meeting of the full Club of Rome held in Washington DC in 1997.

Javier Solana – Secretary General of the Council of the European Union, High Representative for EU Foreign Policy.

Maurice Strong – former Head of the UN Environment Programme, Chief Policy Advisor to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the Rio Earth Summit, co-author (with Gorbachev) of the Earth Charter, co-author of the Kyoto Protocol, founder of the Earth Council, devout Baha’i.

Mikhail Gorbachev – CoR executive member, former President of the Soviet Union, founder of Green Cross International and the Gorbachev Foundation, Nobel Peace Prize winner, co-founder (with Hidalgo) of the Club of Madrid, co-author (with Strong) of the Earth Charter.

Sir Crispin Tickell – former British Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the Security Council, Chairman of the ‘Gaia Society’, Chairman of the Board of the Climate Institute, leading British climate change campaigner.

Kofi Annan – former Secretary General of the United Nations. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

David Rockefeller – CoR executive member, former Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, founder of the Trilateral Commission, executive member of the World Economic Forum, donated land on which the United Nations stands.

Stephen Schneider – Stanford Professor of Biology and Global Change. Professor Schneider was among the earliest and most vocal proponents of man-made global warming and a lead author of many IPCC reports.

Bill Clinton – former President of the United States, founder of the Clinton Global Iniative.

Jimmy Carter – former President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

Ted Turner – media mogul, philanthropist, founder of CNNGeorge Soros – multibillionare, major donor to the UNTony Blair – former Prime Minister of the United KingdomDeepak Chopra – New Age GuruDesmond Tutu – South African Bishop and activist, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateTimothy Wirth – President of the United Nations FoundationHenry Kissinger – former US Secretary of StateGeorge Matthews – Chairman of the Gorbachev FoundationHarlan Cleveland – former Assistant US Secretary of State and NATO AmbassadorBarbara Marx Hubbard – President of the Foundation for Conscious EvolutionBetty Williams – Nobel Peace Prize LaureateMarianne Williamson – New Age ‘Spiritual Activist’Robert Thurman – assistant to the Dalai LamaJane Goodall – Primatologist and Evolutionary BiologistJuan Carlos I – King of SpainPrince Philippe of BelgiumQueen Beatrix of the NetherlandsDona Sophia – Queen of SpainJosé Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – current Prime Minister of SpainKaran Singh – Former Prime Minister of India, Chairman of the Temple of UnderstandingDaisaku Ikeda – founder of the Soka Gakkai cultMartin Lees – CoR Secretary General, Rector of the UN University of PeaceErnesto Zedillo – Director of The Yale Center for the Study of GlobalizationFrithjof Finkbeiner – Coordinator of the Global Marshall Plan Franz Josef Radermacher – Founder of the Global Marshall Plan Eduard Shevardnadze – former Soviet foreign minister and President of GeorgiaRichard von Weizsacker – former President of GermanyCarl Bildt – former President of SwedenKim Campbell – former Prime Minister of Canada and Senior Fellowof the Gorbachev FoundationVincente Fox – former President of MexicoHelmut Kohl – former Chancellor of GermanyRomano Prodi – former Prime Minister of Italy and President of the European CommissionVaclav Havel – former President of the Czech RepublicHans Kung – Founder of the Global Ethic FoundationRuud Lubbers – United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesMary Robinson – United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsJerome Binde – Director of Foresight, UNESCOKoïchiro Matsuura – Current Director General of UNESCOFederico Mayor – Former Director General of UNESCOTapio Kanninen – Director of Policy and Planning, United NationsKonrad Osterwalder – Under-Secretary-General of the United NationsPeter Johnston – Director General of European CommissionJacques Delors – Former President of the European CommissionDomingo Jimenez-Beltran – Executive Director of the European Environment AgencyThomas Homer-Dixon – Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of TorontoHazel Henderson – Futurist and ‘evoluntionary economist’Emeka Anyaoku – former Commonwealth Secretary General, current President of the World Wildlife FundWangari Maathai – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, founder of the Green Belt Movementand many more….

As discussed previously the CoR directly spawned two affiliated ‘Clubs’ – the Club of Budapest (CoB) and the Club of Madrid (CoM). The purpose of these siblings is to “provide spiritual, cultural and political context to the Club of Rome’s technical research.”

The Club of Budapest is an offshoot of the CoR designed to promote the Global Green Agenda though ‘Art and Culture’ – “The idea of the Club of Budapest stems from discussions between its founder and president Ervin Laszlo, and The Club of Rome founder Aurelia Peccei in the late seventies. Peccei suggested that Laszlo, a fellow founding member of the Club of Rome, should bring together writers, artists and people of high spiritual qualifications to complement abstract theoretical information about current and coming global problems with the insight and creativity inherent in art, literature, and various domains of the human spirit.”

However the Club of Budapest seems to have little to do with the Arts and much more to do with the usual themes. The Mission of its WorldShift Network is to address:
– The Governance of Nations
– Education for Wisdom
– Public Health Policy
– The Ethics of Planetary Freedom
– Reverence for Nature
– Approaching a modern Subsistence Economy

The Club of Madrid consists of 70 former Heads of State handpicked by the CoR to consider “appropriate forms of governance” and methods of “democratic transition to a new global order.” The Club was officially founded by Mikhail Gorbachev and Diego Hidalgo. They are both given as “executive members of the Governing Council of the Club of Rome.” The CoM is funded by the Gorbachev Foundation and Hildalgo’s organization FRIDE (the European Council on Foreign Relations).

A quick perusal of their membership list reveals that more than half are also members of CoR National Associations and contain the usual suspects such as Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Mary Robinson, Vaclav Havel, Romano Prodi, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Javier Perez de Cuellar, and Carl Bildt. They state that their top priority is “facilitating a global post-Kyoto climate treaty.” The Club of Madrid, in a similar fashion to the CoR, is an official consultant body to the UN and is contracted by them to produce reports and technical advice.

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Perhaps the most interesting of all these organizations is the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality. The purpose of this ‘Commission’ appears to be to perpetuate the spiritual aspects of the Global Green Agenda. It is basically just old-fashioned paganism dressed up as a new eco-theology. I challenge the reader to make sense of this page! The commission is composed mostly of CoR members including Gore and Gorbachev.

The United Nations Foundation was created by prominent CoR member Ted Turner. He donated one billion dollars to support the environmental activites of the UN. A significant proportion of this money was designated for “programmes specifically addressing climate change” and funding the IPCC. The Foundation has also recently created the Global Security Institute to “propose far-reaching reforms of the international system.” As would be expected the Foundation’s Board is full of the same old names including: Ted Turner, Timothy Wirth, Kofi Annan, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Emma Rothschild, and Muhammad Yunus.

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Global Leadership for Climate Action is a joint initiative of the United Nations Foundation and the Club of Madrid which “aims to design a framework for a new enforceable international agreement on climate change.” The GLCA has editorial input into reports and assessments produced by the IPCC and provides “technical expertise on the implications and communication of climate change science.” By my count more than two-thirds of the GLCA membersare also members of the CoR including: George Soros, Ted Turner, Timothy Wirth, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Sir Crispin Tickell, Kim Campbell, Wangari Maathai, Petre Roman and Richard Lagos. Now I have to wonder what qualifies George Soros and Ted Turner to provide technical advice on climate change science!!

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The Gorbachev Foundation was created by Mikhail Gorbachev immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He described the Foundation “as a think-tank whose purpose is to explore the path that global governance should take as mankind progresses into an interdependent global society.” The overall motto of the Gorbachev Foundation is “Toward a New Civilization”. The Foundation is deeply involved in many aspects of the modern green movement. They provide advice and funding to many non-government environmental orgaizations. The Board of the Foundation includes CoR members: Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert Muller, Ted Turner, Ruud Lubbers, Wangari Maathai, Sri Chinmoy, Robert Redford, Vaclav Havel and Javier Peres de Cuellar. Who would have thought Robert Redford was involved in all of this! In a similar fashion to the CoR, the Gorbachev Foundation now has several ‘Gorbachev Foundation National Associations’ each with their own management structure.

The Foundation works very closely with the CoR and the Club of Madrid and regularly holds joint conferences. These conferences must be fairly easy to organise since they have so many members in common. In order to carry out their ‘mission’ the Foundation has created a number of susidiary organizations. Chief among these is Green Cross International.

From the Green Cross Charter:
“Life is sacred. All forms of life have their own intrinsic value and share our planetary home in an interdependent community. All parts of this community are essential to the functioning of the whole. The beauty of the Earth and its life is food for the human spirit, inspiring human consciousness with wonder, joy and creativity. Human beings are not outside or above the community of life. We have not woven the web of life, we are but a strand in it. We depend on the whole for our very existence. For the first time in history, human beings have the capacity to damage, knowingly or unknowingly, the ecological balances on which all life depends. The crisis is urgent.“

Another organization that is closely linked to the CoR is the United Nations University of Peace. The Chancellor (Robert Muller), Rector (Konrad Osterwalder) and CEO (Martin Lees) are all prominent CoR members. In fact Martin Lees has just been appointed as the CoR Secretary-General. Dr Muller founded the UN’s University of Peace on a mountain in Costa Rica. Why did he choose this location? Because of this ancient prophecy:
“Dear children, the Great Spirit is in every animal, in every bird, butterfly, flower, insect, leaf and grass you see. The Great Spirit is also in you, the Creator’s children. Please take care of the wonderful nature created by God and some day, from this mountain, you will see the birth of a civilization of peace spread to the entire world.“

The ‘Board of Honor’ of the University includes: Betty Williams, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, the Dalai Lama Nelson Mandela, F. W. de Klerk and David Trimble. The University is also home to Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong’s infamous Earth Charter Initiative.

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An excellent source of information is the Kosmos Journal, a publication dedicated to the ‘Global Awakening’ and fostering a ‘New Human Civilisation’. Many of the articles are written by CoR members. It actually makes me feel physically ill after spending a few hours wading through their nonsense. The founding partners of this journal include many of the organisations listed above and show how truly interconnected they are:

Founding Partners:Club of Rome
Club of Budapest
World Wisdom Council
Gorbachev Foundation
World Commission for Global Consciousness and Spirituality
Goi Peace Foundation
Global Youth Network
The Future 500
Institute of Noetic Studies

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These are just a few of the influential ‘environmental’ organizations that were either founded by, or are dominated by, CoR members. There are many more that I have come across but it would take forever to describe them all here. The leaders of the Global Green Agenda are deadly serious about their intention to “transform humanity into an interdependent global sustainable Earth Community, based on reverence and respect for Gaia” and they have been spreading their tentacles into every area of global politics. Some other CoR initiated organizations you may wish to research are:

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Who said atheists don’t believe in a god? The Club of Rome members who mostly avow to being atheist have their god and she’s called Gaia. I freely admit that I don’t have all the answers to the universe but what I do know is human history. I don’t for a second assume that modern people would not return to the pagan rituals of human sacrifice just because they might feel more scientifically “enlightened”. The idea of global population reduction is a cult like idea. It is a pernicious idea to say the least. If one really takes the time to consider the implications of such thought as embraced by global rulers, it isn’t a stretch of the imagination to assume that some manifest form of genocide would eventually become law. As a kid I remember reading Aldous Huxley’s fictional novel “Brave New World”. I knew right away that what he wrote was a peer extension of the book “1984” and I couldn’t help but think that since he came from a scientifically prestigious background that he might have some unique insight into how the direction of science might evolve. In the beginning I shrugged off the idea as fantasy that humans of the future would be socially and genetically engineered. But as time went on I was startled to see how his fiction was quickly turning into reality. Today a company in China called GBI is collecting DNA samples from 2,000 of the worlds “smartest” people and sequencing their entire genomes in an attempt to identify the alleles that determine human “intelligence”. When they do, they are hoping to conduct embryo screening procedures where Chinese families (if they still are families anymore) pick the “brightest” zygote child and thereby “secure” their economic global edge. When (not if) this comes to pass I can only imagine that the European Union would follow suit in their quest for some similar idealized goal of gaining a competitive edge. But if we step back and see what is really unfolding here its that humans are being looked upon as nothing more than a corporate resource. On an international scale its horrifying because extended to its logical conclusion anyone who is not an embryo screened child or “value resource” may be considered by the powers to be, a global liability. Under the auspices of “planned population control” these “liabilities” might therefore be deferred to some population management scenario such as forced or incentive based sterilization and euthanasia. I have researched the history of animal husbandry. There is a trade off when farmers try to breed for a specific trait. To get what they want they lose something else. The over all integrity of the animal is compromised. Nature didn’t intend on man to play god and nature has its own laws for how biology should evolve. The ecosystem interplay between time, environment and biology is quite complicated. If mindless international government leaders in sync with mindless international corporations start putting into practice some of their ideologies and god forbid China ever takes the lead this way, we as humans could be in major jeopardy.

Very erudite response. Ironic that UNESCO was founded by Julian Huxley, yes? These globalists have never left the notion of population reduction behind, and indeed, the Affordable Health Care Act is a step in that direction. With “Mother Earth” supplanting God (as the push for secularism forges ahead), in time, in order to save “Mother Earth” what sacrifices will be asked of us? Think about what sacrifices we are already making.

My reply was a comment in line with your warnings about the Club of Rome. And yes it is very ironic that the ‘Brave New World’ author Aldous Huxley was the younger brother of Julian Huxley who later formed the cultural and educational arm of the “New World Order” or what they called ‘The United Nations’. Julian Huxley throughout his life was a prolific world traveller much like many of the Club of Rome members. In fact following your reference of the Affordable Health Care Act, Pierre Trudeau, also a Club of Rome member and again a prolific world traveller, introduced the Canada Health Act while he was Prime Minister in 1984. This health care act essentially stole the fee incentive for doctors and insurers to provide decent health care to Canadians and as a result created one of Canada’s worst governmental disasters. The health care system in Canada is completely broken despite all propaganda efforts to say otherwise. It is touted to the world as the health care model to follow but behind the pretty hospital walls is a tired, ineffective, lip service paying staff of medical charlatans. So what have Canadians sacrificed? Many are dying slow agonizing deaths because they are poorly cared for and lost in the system, sometimes waiting years for treatment. Most Canadian politicians travel south of the border for their health care while their constituents stay home and pay the price. Now imagine what might happen if a government plan like the Canada Health Act were to be implemented on global level? Would we then start to realize the dangers or would it be too late to change anything? I don’t think it matters one way or another how these global elitists are viewed, whether they are seen as pampered out of touch ideologues or crafty malevolent demons. The end result is the same, the majority of people will be stripped of their power to help themselves and furthermore culled like cattle. As they say “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”, with the Club of Rome its an autobahn to hell.

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The Limits to Growth

"The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."
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